Paleontology 635 Million-year-old Fungi-like Microfossil that Bailed Us out of an Ice Age Discovered (Paleontology) 27 Mar 2021 When you think of fungi, what comes to mind may be a crucial ingredient in a recipe or their amazing ability to break down dead organic matter into vital nutrients.…
Paleontology Rare Fossilized Algae, Discovered Unexpectedly, fill in Evolutionary Gaps (Paleontology) 23 Mar 2021 When geobiology graduate student Katie Maloney trekked into the mountains of Canada’s remote Yukon territory, she was hoping to find microscopic fossils of early life. Even with detailed field plans,…
Paleontology New Australian Fossil Lizard (Paleontology) 17 Feb 2021 Oldest skink named after eminent biology professor Some of Australia's most famous animals - wombat, platypus, kangaroos and the extinct marsupial tiger thylacine - have been traced back to their…
Paleontology Ancient Wolf Pup Mummy Uncovered in Yukon Permafrost (Paleontology) 22 Dec 2020 While water blasting at a wall of frozen mud in Yukon, Canada, a gold miner made an extraordinary discovery: a perfectly preserved wolf pup that had been locked in permafrost…
Astronomy The Milky Way Primordial History and Its Fossil Findings (Astronomy) 18 Dec 202018 Dec 2020 Just as archaeologists dig hoping to find traces of the past, an international group of astrophysicists managed to get into the thick cloud of dust around the centre of the…
Paleontology Henderson Island Fossils Reveal New Polynesian Sandpiper Species (Paleontology) 17 Nov 2020 Fossil bones collected in the early 1990s on Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Group, have revealed a new species of Polynesian sandpiper. The Henderson Sandpiper, a small wading bird…
Paleontology The First Duckbill Dinosaur Fossil From Africa Hints At How Dinosaurs Once Crossed Oceans (Paleontology) 5 Nov 2020 The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds of kilometres of open water to get there. Duckbill dinosaurs evolved in north America,…
